Signal Corps Archive:
SC 270634 - Seventh Army mortar squad, when given the command to cross, leaves the partial protection of a bomb crater to make a run for the assault boats which will carry them over the river.
Signal Corps Archive:
C-868 - Members of Co. D, 39th Inf. Regt., 9th Div., prepare to fire their mortar from newly-captured ground in Germany.
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C-713 - This dug-in mortar emplacement is manned by, left to right, Pvt. R. W. Fierdo, Wyahoga Falls, Ohio; S/Sgt. Adam J. Celinca, Windsor, Conn., T/Sgt. W. O. Thomas, Chicago. St. Vith, Belgium. 24 January, 1945.
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SC 270569 - American soldiers of Co. G, 38th Regiment, 2nd Division, U.S. First Army, take refuge in doorways during mortar barrage laid down by Germans after Yanks seized one of their forest strongholds...
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SC 335371 - Five East Massachusetts boys set up an 81mm mortar.
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SC 334966 - Street scene in Linnich, Germany, as infantrymen of the 102nd Infantry Division, 9th U.S. Army push towards Gevenich, Germany. 23 February, 1945.
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SC 336791 - Company B, 2nd Chemical Bn. The mortars are fired. The team is well trained and can fire 20 rounds a minute. Cassino area, Italy. 6 March, 1944.
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SC 336793 - The terrain traveled by the mortar squads is a tough, rocky, hard to get over ground.
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SC 337215 - Pfc. Robert N. Mausfield, Sandusky, Ohio, right, relays firing orders to mortar crew in [illegible], Germany.
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SC 336792 - Pvt. Ray E. Thiel, Long Island, Calif., of 3rd Bn., Mortar Platoon, 504th Parachute Infantry, cleans 81mm mortar.
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SC 364516 - Members of the mortar squad of K Co., 3rd Bn., 15th Regt., Philippine Army, watching a mortar shell fall on the enemy lines.
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SC 374834 - Lt. Abraham J. Kownatsky, of 814 North 40th St., Phila., Pa., (left) and his 1st U.S. Army relief platoon prepare to leave Mittelscheid, Germany, to relieve another patrol located a mile from the town of Fernegierscheid.
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SC 364511 - H Co., 2nd Bn., 127th Inf., 32nd Div. firing 82mm mortar on Jap positions along the Vila Verde Trail. 3 March, 1945.
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SC 364522 - General view of Forward CP of "D" Co., 1st Bn., 511th P.I., 11th Airborne Div. Mt. Malapuno area, Luzon, P.I. 24 April, 1945.
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SC 364537 - Mortar squad of the 83rd Division, First U.S. Army, digs a position for 4.2 mortars in the snow and frozen ground of Ronce Woods.
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SC 364325 - A 4.2 mortar crew prepares to hurl a harassing barrage of white phosphorous shells on enemy positions to protect the movement of infantrymen (background) moving up to new positions above Wimmenau, France.
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SC 364510 - Men of the Mortar Platoon, 126th Inf. Regt., 32nd Div., are shown firing the 81mm mortar on the Jap positions in in the Orboredo River sector, Luzon, P.I.
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SC 364520 - Mortar squad of the 85th Chemical Mortar Bn. shelling Mt. Macolod, Batangas Prov., Lamon, P.I.
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SC 364521 - The Shimbu Line in the Sierre Madre Range, where the Japs have dug in east of Manila, P.I., is now held by Co. B, 82nd Chemical Mortar Bn., with the 63rd Inf. Regt. of 6th Div., near San Mateo...
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SC 364571 - Mortar crew firing at Jap positions on Bougainville during the April assault by the Japanese.
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SC 364317 - Mortarmen of Company "D," 87th Chemical Battalion, 84th Division, receive fire orders while eating chow.
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SC 364331 - Mortar team of the 99th Infantry Division, U.S. First Army, prepares to fire 81mm mortar shell to halt advance of enemy patrol in woods between American-held Ariendorf, and Germany-held Honningen.
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SC 364328 - Mortar fires on enemy positions in the German-held third of Forbach. Officer checks range with observation post over phone as squadman ducks the blast of another round on the way.
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SC 364608 - Heavy 81mm mortar firing into Jap positions across the Tsinamutu River, near Kuraio Mission, Bougainville. 24 February, 1944.
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SC 364534 - This 4.2 mortar crew is shown in action as they throw smoke shells into the German lines in France.
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SC 364513 - 4.2 mortars are taking part in a battle near Anabat, Luzon, P.I., in which the 161st RCT, 25th Infantry Division scrapped against the Jap Inf., mortars and arty.
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SC 364497 - Pvt. Jack Hunting, Texarkana, Texas, and Pfc. Alfred Livingston, of Company "D", 128th Infantry Regiment, at their 81mm mortar position on the front line.
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SC 364191 - L/R Sgt. Roscoe L. Watts, Cpl. William R. Woodward, and Pfc. Billie J. Stout, all of I Company, 26th Inf. Regt, take up a 60mm mortar position during Exercise Cold Spot.
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SC 364266 - Cpl. James Boyd, Riverside, Cal., and Pfc. Edgar Lsquerr(?), Springfield, Mass., operate a 4.2 mortar which is throwing smoke shells to cover the crossing of the 5th Division troops over the Sauer River.
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SC 364267 - Two mortars, one a captured Nazi piece, are fired together toward German positions near Guiderkirch, France, by men of the 3rd Battalion, 324th Infantry Regiment, 44th Division, Seventh U.S. Army.
